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EXCLUSIVE: The Emmy voting still has a few hours to go, but that didn’t stop Sony Pictures Classics from officially launching Oscar season, or at least one aspect of it. The annual ritual practiced in this column of naming the winner of the first official screener sent to Academy voters goes to SPC’s spring releases Ma…

Box office numbers for the Specialties were slow in coming Sunday, with only some holdovers reporting their Friday to Sunday grosses over the holiday weekend. Last weekend's top opener, Weiner from Sundance Selects, continued to show zest in its second frame as it expanded into just over two dozen locations, while…

Sundance Film Festival 2016 documentary winner Weinertopped the weekend's new Specialty releases, and boasts the highest per theater average debut among non-fiction releases this year. The Sundance Selects release grossed $85,525 from five New York and Los Angeles locations this weekend. Sony Classics bowed Toronto…

Writer/director Rebecca Miller had a plan of her own with her new film, Maggie’s Plan. Basically that was to lighten up. Her previous films Personal Velocity, The Battle Of Jack And Rose and The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee tended toward the more serious side, although the latter had some level of fun to it. Now though…

Actress-filmmaker Rebecca Miller wrote the character Julianne Moore plays in Maggie's Plan with her in mind. Moore, who stars along with Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke, won the Best Actress Oscar last year for Still Alice, which Sony Pictures Classics released. The company is taking Maggie's Plan out this weekend…

EXCLUSIVE:Rebecca Miller and Damon Cardasis are launching Round Films, a new production outfit that builds on the duo’s work together on Maggie’s Plan. The new shingle will be repped by Cinetic Media and CAA.
The first project to be released under the Round Films banner, Maggie’s Plan, was written and directed by…

The Toronto Film Festival is a memory and that is usually when buyers gain the decided leverage on movies that didn’t quite match the pre-festival expectations. Maggie’s Plan was one of those, and Sony Pictures Classics just acquired rights in North America and other key international territories. Written and directed…

It was Julianne Moore day at the Toronto International Film Festival. For me, at least.
I saw two new Moore films back-to-back Sunday. First up was a very funny new romantic comedy, Maggie’s Plan, in which she stars with Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Bill Hader, playing Hawke’s wife with a very deep Danish accent and…

EXCLUSIVE: Locomotive, the film/TV production company re-launched in 2014 by Lucy Barzun Donnelly, Alexandra Kerry and Jonathon Kemp, has just closed a jointly funded feature development deal with New Regency. This comes as the producers dress for tonight’s Toronto International Film Festival Gala premiere of the…

Here are some of the acquisition titles playing at the Toronto Film Festival that have the attention of buyers.
ColoniaDirector-Writer: Florian Gallenberger. Cast: Daniel Bruhl, Emma Watson. When two German lovers get caught in the Chilean riots of 1973, they both end up imprisoned in the colony of a malicious cult…

EXCLUSIVE: Vikings star Travis Fimmel is joining Greta Gerwig, Bill Hader, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore in Maggie’s Plan, the romantic comedy scripted and to be directed by Rebecca Miller. Damon Cardasis of Round Films is producing and filming will begin this month. He will play the role of Guy.
Fimmel, who is lead…

Clive Owen will play one third of an unusual love triangle in Rebecca Miller‘s Maggie’s Plan. The romantic comedy of manners set Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore in January and will shoot in New York City later this year. Miller penned the screenplay based on a story by Karine Rinaldi that focuses on a woman trying to <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cannes2014_badge__140417160328.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…